dismember

He’s seen ants work as a team to dismember prey in minutes.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 22, 2024

Although their store is closed two days a week, it’s become their second home — one they don’t have to unpack and dismember at the end of the afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022

Mr. Erdogan said the order to dismember Mr. Khashoggi came from the “highest levels” of the Saudi government, but avoided accusing the prince directly.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

Since Jarboe began the competition two months ago, improvement has been rapid: As of early April, 17 of her 20 students have learned to fashion and dismember double knots with aplomb.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2022

I’m pretty sure the only thing you could dismember is a sandwich.”

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

"The French do not expect from the Macron leadership that it dismembers our overseas territories behind their backs," she said, describing the territories as "true levers of power, influence and economic development".

From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025

Fine takes on this king of all biases with admirable vigor, and it’s a pleasure — albeit a strenuous one — to follow the action as she dismembers the beast.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017

That distinction belongs to the Financial Stability Oversight Council—the beak with which Dodd-Frank dismembers its prey. 

From Forbes ● Jul. 7, 2014

And he digs a deeper hole by mangling the Beatles' She's Leaving Home, whose lyric he dismembers with bizarre changes of tone, volume and intonation.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2011

Rome, like the creation, is an entire wonder, which gradually dismembers itself into new wonders, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, St. Peter's Church, Raphael, &c.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

And so, like the dismembered Black Knight in that iconic fight scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” they comically cling to their mortally wounded impeachment scheme, proclaiming, “‘Tis but a scratch!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2024

It was Coyolxauhqui, carefully portrayed in stone as the dismembered lunar goddess who lost a battle against her brother, the Sun.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

You can use your favorite chocolate bar or chocolate chips, though I would applaud your resourcefulness if you dismembered a chocolate bunny or two in service of your baking.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2022

In Turkey, Kemal Ataturk had built a modern European secular republic - a Turkish nation-state - after the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire had been defeated and dismembered in 1918.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2022

Again, one may safely assert that France, in 1815, would have been dismembered had it not been for Alexander.

From My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

The eight years Darwin spent dismembering these tiny invertebrates at home took up more than 20 pages in Ms. Browne’s old version; they now receive barely four.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Ingo Arndt captured the red wood ants efficiently dismembering a blue ground beetle to carry into their nest.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

During the war, a number of proposals for dismembering the empire had been considered.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

With large mandibles capable of dismembering and masticating honeybees en masse — and stingers that can puncture beekeeping suits — the V. mandarinia has become an increasing threat to honeybee hives in the U.S.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2021

Once the third aunt who worked at the laundry ran out and bought us bags of candy to hold over our noses; my mother was dismembering skunk on the chopping block.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston